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Quick installation of x11-apps:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: x11-apps
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install x11-apps
Package Details | |
| Package: | x11-apps |
| Version: | 7.6+5ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | X applications This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X applications that ship with the X Window System, including: - atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images; - ico, a demo program animating polyhedrons; - oclock and xclock, graphical clocks; - xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email; - xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory; - xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections; - xconsole, which monitors system console messages; - xcursorgen, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs; - xditview, a viewer for ditroff output; - xedit, a simple text editor for X; - xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer; - xgc, a graphics demo; - xload, a monitor for the system load average; - xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo; - xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen; - xman, a manual page browser; - xmore, a text pager; - xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session; - xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd; - Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical operations under the X Window System; . The xbiff, xcalc, xconsole, xedit and xman programs use bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | x11 |
How to install x11-apps on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If x11-apps is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L x11-apps' will give followin error.
Installing x11-apps:
After system update use the following command to install x11-apps:
sudo apt-get install x11-apps
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove x11-apps from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the x11-apps from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the x11-apps following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove x11-apps
Following command is used to remove the x11-apps package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove x11-apps
This will remove x11-apps and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing x11-apps with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge x11-apps
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove x11-apps
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with x11-apps package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
